July 9, 1972

In a tumultuous week for boxing, a smashing young lightweight creates pandemonium among Panamanians and the ghost of Muhammad Ali appears to announce with ringing lefts that next time Joe Frazier had better be ready to duck

Ah, it was this, not winning, that the little baron with the big mustache said was important about his Olympics. But would Al Oerter, Harry Edwards and the gang at Hawaiian Punch agree? The first of three parts